News from June 2021
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: BOTHELL, Wash. - The Federal Emergency Management Agency provided $5,913,206 in federal funding to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium for damages sustained to the Consortium’s administrative building, parking lot, and the Healthy Communities Building because of the Alaska Earthquake in November 2018.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: After completing a comprehensive review, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved the renewal of the spaceport license for the Oklahoma Space Industry Development Authority.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Eddie “Macho" Martinez-Marquez (32, Kissimmee) has pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine. Martinez-Marquez faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years, and up to life, in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Melanie K. Pierson (619) 546-7976.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - A Woodville man pled guilty in federal court today to selling methamphetamine, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca of the Southern District of Mississippi and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Doriel Guerrero, 22, of Methuen, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute, fentanyl, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Kristian Jones, 27, of Wilmington, DE, was sentenced to twenty years in prison, ten years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay over $15,000 in restitution to his victims by United States District Judge Nitza I. Quiñones Alejandro for his participation in a conspiracy to sex traffic minor and young adult victims.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas today announced new efforts to support the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screening officer workforce, including expanding collective bargaining at the national level and ensuring that TSA’s standards and processes adhere to the principles applied by the Merit Systems Protection Board. Secretary Mayorkas also expressed the Department’s commitment to improving pay for the TSA workforce.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: Projects expected to create tens of thousands of jobs across the United States WASHINGTON, June 3, 2021 – Today, the Departments of Agriculture and the Interior announced their proposed Fiscal Year 2022 allocations of $2.8 billion in projects, grants and programs authorized in the Great American Outdoors ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: The Justice Department today announced it has reached an agreement with defendant Larry Nelson to resolve a Fair Housing Act lawsuit alleging that he sexually harassed female tenants while owning and managing San Diego area rental properties. Under the consent order entered by the U.S. District Court ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: A Texas man pleaded guilty yesterday to federal hate crime charges in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: Lone Star Industries Inc, a subsidiary of Italian company Buzzi Unicem, has agreed to upgrade and optimize pollution control equipment and procedures at its cement manufacturing facility in Greencastle, Indiana, to resolve Clean Air Act (CAA) violations brought by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the State of Indiana Department of Environmental Management.
By Fed Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of the enforcement action listed below: Consent Prohibition against Jennifer Bradford Former employee BBVA USA, Birmingham, Alabama Misappropriation of customer and bank funds Additional enforcement actions can be searched for here.
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of Japan and the United States of America.
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Hello, everyone. It’s a real pleasure to welcome Defense Minister Gantz to the State Department. We had an opportunity to spend some time together in Israel just a week or so ago. Very happy today to have the opportunity to pursue that conversation, to talk about the United States ...
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met today with Israeli Alternate Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benjamin Gantz. The Secretary and the Alternate Prime Minister discussed the U.S.-Israel partnership and America’s ironclad commitment to Israel’s ...
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and the Republic of India.
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: Tomorrow marks the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Named after the nearby Gate of Heavenly Peace, the square is instead synonymous with the brutal actions by the Government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1989 to silence tens of thousands of individuals advocating to have a say in their government and exercise their human rights and fundamental freedoms.
By Commerce News Now | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: Broadband Internet is increasingly essential for Americans to do their jobs, participate in distance learning, access health care and stay connected. Still, millions of Americans live in areas where there is no broadband infrastructure that can provide acceptable speeds. Americans outside of urban areas particularly lack adequate access.
By Commerce News Now | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: Thank you, Vice President Harris, for that introduction and for your amazing leadership on this important issue. And thank you President Holsey and Secretary Haaland for your leadership as well.
